A Son Teaching His Father?

Faced with Boruto's openly contemptuous stare, Jiraiya gave a heh-heh laugh and waved it off without a care, deftly steering the topic away from his rather less-than-honorable act of "passing the buck."

"Oh, come on, don't sweat the small stuff." He put away that cynical grin, and his eyes turned slightly more serious.

"Compared to that, there's something more important to worry about. That enemy who appeared in the Land of Waves last time, the one called Otsutsuki Urashiki—he's been completely silent for half a month now."

At the mention of Otsutsuki Urashiki, Boruto and the young Sasuke's expressions immediately turned grave.

Ever since the battle in the Land of Waves, after he had been driven back by that boy named Menma in a Karma form they had never seen before, Urashiki had vanished without a trace.

Logically speaking, given Urashiki's covetous eye on the Nine-Tails chakra inside Naruto, he shouldn't have stayed quiet this long.

But now that half a month had already passed, this abnormal calm only made people feel even more uneasy.

The young Sasuke frowned slightly, a hint of gravity flashing through his only exposed left eye. "Urashiki's injuries weren't serious, yet he still hasn't made another move. He's very likely plotting something."

He paused, then looked at Jiraiya. "When exactly will the third round of the Chunin Joint Exams be held? When the time comes, spectators will gather in droves, all kinds of people mixed together—I'm worried Urashiki will choose that moment to strike."

Boruto's face changed slightly at those words. He thought of the Chunin Exams in his own time and space.

The sudden arrival of Otsutsuki Momoshiki and Otsutsuki Kinshiki had caused disastrous chaos and countless casualties.

If it were the even more cunning, even harder-to-read Urashiki who made a move in Konoha's